Single “Alive” was inspired by all the things that tend to rise to the surface while touring. “Alive was inspired by the tensions and survival of a long-term touring band, the dark sides that surface, the dangerous, slippery slide of addiction and excess,” says Lowery.
In the video, directed by Mark Lediard (Of Mice & Men, Sirens), Lowery takes some blows as he’s stuck in a grind, getting pushed around by the outside elements fighting lyrics All those things that we never say, will run us down and bury us … We’re so blind and hard past dead / Please find yourself and let go of this.
“[It’s] a warning song to what can happen if you partake and lose yourself in the fantasy,” says Lowery. “I prefer living in reality and not drinking my own Kool-Aid.”
